I am looking for some assistance with installing GHC on Mac OS X. If there is a more appropriate place for me to ask, please let me know. I have tried, with no luck so far, the 2 different binary distributions of 6.10.4 provided for the Mac on the haskell.org ghc download page (http://www.haskell.org/ghc/download_ghc_6_10_4.html#macosxintel) I have OS X version 10.5.7 with XCode version 3.1.2 installed. When I run the installer (GHC-6.10.4-i386.pkg) I get as far as the "Installation Type" screen with the following text displayed: "Click Install to perform a standard installation of this software for all users of this computer". However the 'Install' button is greyed out and cannot be clicked. The last entries in the installer log are as follows: Jul 29 00:03:29 phil-denniss-macbook-pro Installer[11740]: Glasgow Haskell Compiler Installation Log Jul 29 00:03:29 phil-denniss-macbook-pro Installer[11740]: Opened from: /Users/pjdennis/Downloads/GHC-6.10.4-i386.pkg Jul 29 00:03:30 phil-denniss-macbook-pro installdb[11743]: started (uid 96) Jul 29 00:03:30 phil-denniss-macbook-pro installdb[11743]: Opened receipt database on '/' with schema 17. Jul 29 00:03:36 phil-denniss-macbook-pro installdb[11743]: done. (0.003u + 0.003s) ALSO I tried the binary distribution (ghc-6.10.4-i386-apple-darwin.tar.bz2) which I extracted, and then ran ./configure, as instructed in the INSTALL file. After adding /Developer/usr/bin to the path (so that the configure script could find the 'ar' program) I now get the following error from the configure script: configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables See `config.log' for more details. I have pasted some of what looks relevant from config.log, below. Any help with either one of the install methods for OS X would be much appreciated. I am keen to get started trying out Haskell, instead of mucking with installers. Regards, Phil Dennis ---------------------------------------------------------------
From config.log
configure:2298: found /Developer/usr/bin/gcc configure:2309: result: gcc configure:2547: checking for C compiler version configure:2554: gcc --version >&5 i686-apple-darwin9-gcc-4.0.1 (GCC) 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5490) Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. configure:2557: $? = 0 configure:2564: gcc -v >&5 Using built-in specs. Target: i686-apple-darwin9 Configured with: /var/tmp/gcc/gcc-5490~1/src/configure --disable-checking -enable-werror --prefix=/usr --mandir=/share/man --enable-languages=c,objc,c++,obj-c++ --program-transform-name=/^[cg][^.-]*$/s/$/-4.0/ --with-gxx-include-dir=/include/c+ +/4.0.0 --with-slibdir=/usr/lib --build=i686-apple-darwin9 --with-arch=apple --with-tune=generic --host=i686-apple-darwin9 --target=i686-apple-darwin9 Thread model: posix gcc version 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5490) configure:2567: $? = 0 configure:2574: gcc -V >&5 gcc-4.0: argument to `-V' is missing configure:2577: $? = 1 configure:2600: checking for C compiler default output file name configure:2627: gcc conftest.c >&5 ld: library not found for -lcrt1.10.5.o collect2: ld returned 1 exit status configure:2630: $? = 1 configure:2668: result: configure: failed program was: | /* confdefs.h. */ | #define PACKAGE_NAME "" | #define PACKAGE_TARNAME "" | #define PACKAGE_VERSION "" | #define PACKAGE_STRING "" | #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT "" | /* end confdefs.h. */ | | int | main () | { | | ; | return 0; | } configure:2675: error: C compiler cannot create executables See `config.log' for more details.